pépée
\pe.pe\
The verdict
“pépée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poupée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pepee · pépée · French
pépée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pépée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.pe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pépée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pépée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pépée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pépée, spelled P-É-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Poupée.
- 2Jeune femme ou jeune fille, généralement jolie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pépée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je sais que le tabac, c’est mauvais pour la voix, On dit que l’alcool c’est pas bon pour le foie, Quant aux petites pépées, c’est fatal pour le cœur, […]
Dans son portrait du secrétaire général, un journaliste a écrit une comparaison qui donne à réfléchir malgré sa méchanceté gratuite : il serait fasciné par le PR comme par un voyou accompagné d’une spectaculaire pépée.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.